“The effective learner strategy that you and your staff have developed is successful in encouraging pupils to be well organised, highly motivated, resilient, curious, creative and keen to become good citizens.”

Pupils were given a greater challenge in maths and the attainment and progress of the most able pupils in maths had increased in all age groups.

The school environment was praised as “bright and welcoming” and “significant changes” had been made to the curriculum to make it “more inspiring, practical and interesting”.

“Effective action” had been taken to ensure the quality of teaching and learning remained good and staff had “responded quickly” to a recent dip in the performance of pupils’ reading.

Attendance had improved overall and the percentage of pupils who were persistently absent had dropped, but they both still compared “unfavourably to historic national averages”.

Ofsted said the school should continue to develop positive relationships with parents so they knew the importance of regular attendance and ensure that changes to reading were embedded so progress continues to improve.